Scared of competition...
It's best to buy indie authors anyway - pretty much the only exception I make are books by people like Candace Owens because these bigger names still seem to go for the trad publishers, which, frankly, I am a bit disappointed with, and some authors by Baen Books - besides the best authors are mostly among them now anyway, what most trad publishers sell as genre novels are damn boring and mostly in your face "educational".
Sure, there are also a hell of a lot of bad writers among the indies too so finding the good may be bit of a problem, but if you persist there are real pearls there. The good old fashioned adventure story has pretty much its only place there now (well, Baen Books have good authors, like Correia and Ringo, and some bigger houses have kept their old bestsellers because they'd presumably cease to exist without them, but only Baen seems to be willing to take on new ones), for example, as do traditional westers.
All the stuff the trad publishers decided no longer has an audience... or maybe think that it shouldn't have an audience.
The big problem right now is however that the main platform for them is Amazon because most of the buyers are there, so the ones who actually may want to get some money for their work kind of have to stay there. We'd really need some viable alternatives. And a way to lure the customers there once we have them.
There are people who really mean what they say. And people who say what they think the plebes will like so that they will support them. The Left seems to be most of the latter kind when it comes to the people who have the tenacity to rise to the top, and they are supported by people who both fall for the narrative - because whatever is said, it always sounds quite nice - and mostly want somebody else to take care of things.
Some get red-pilled when they notice that the narrative tends to change, others seem to either have pretty short memories or REALLY want somebody else to take care of things, and just assume that the elites know what they are doing (mostly they do...) and are doing their best for everybody (so they mostly mean well for themselves and screw everybody else, although I assume at least some of them can fool even themselves into thinking that what is good for them is really the best for everybody too).
Heh.
But that whole thing does pretty well show the fact that you can't govern the ungovernable. Yes, it will cost the people who rebel, and some it will cost dearly because they will try their best to intimidate everybody back into the fold. But if most people will refuse... in the end they will lose.
Your best bet might be to get as many new people as possible who have been doing what they need to make decisions about, like run businesses, farming, medicine, but have not been in politics before. That My Pillow guy, the woman doctor who got arrested, Simone Gold? That type of people. Okay, maybe a few who will know how to deal with international politics will be needed.
A few truths in there: BMI is not a particularly good way to estimate weight, and clothes... yep. But the second is no longer a problem, you can now find even exercise clothes even in the morbidly obese sizes, and the first, well, might start to move towards devices which tell you how much of your weight is fat and how much muscle, considering they are widely available and fairly cheap now. Besides, simply getting your waist circumference gives you a good idea anyway as long as you aren't a pregnant woman.
I have been fighting with my weight my whole life, and I am fairly sure there is some sort of physical problem with something, maybe gut bacteria, maybe my thyroid (I live in a country with "free" health care - they will not test anything but the T4 levels, and as long as those are in range everything is assumed to be fine. Sucks it happens to be something wrong with the conversion to T3... fact is even if that is found it seems to be bloody difficult here to get properly treated, from what I have been reading in the discussion forums for thyroid patients). Because when I was younger I worked several summers in a job where I walked up to 20 km per day, and could get to a store only a couple of times per month and I was, damn it, trying to lose weight so I was very careful to buy only a certain amount of calories per day, and HAD to stick to that because if I had eaten through my stores too fast I would not have had anything left to eat for the last days (geological mapping, we were in camps very much in the middle of nowhere, no roads, not even trails). But I never lost more than a couple of kilos during any of those summers.
So I am not a fan of fat-shaming - most of the fat people are couch potatoes who eat too much, but not everyone, and you can't tell unless you actually know the person. And way too often the doctors also just assume that you eat too much and exercise too little, so getting help when the normal ways don't work can be almost impossible. And even with the couch potatoes - if their problem is lack of exercise possibly pushing them to avoid gyms and maybe even walking outside is not going to help them.
BUT I HATE THE FAT ACCEPTANCE MOVEMENT. Because being fat is god damn it, unhealthy, and that makes it even more difficult to get help when you have a problem with your weight that seems to be impervious to the normal methods of losing weight.
You are not a woman, are you? The OP comment is pretty much what you hear in the ladies' room when the subject herself is not well-liked and not present. Did you miss the "catty" part? :P
And she does dress badly. No two ways about that part.
Jade probably is one possibility for the material, or at least most people think "jade" when they see that kind of green jewelry when it's not obviously plastic. Maybe signifying "hey I like China too" or something along those lines. Hey, I work for China?
Exactly. She would not be half-way bad looking for an older woman if she had on good make-up and well-fitting tasteful clothes. The only conclusions are that either she has no taste, or that she wants to look frumpy. Maybe she is just so generally angry that it is the latter, as an expression of that anger.
Good work.
Your best chance right now is probably getting as many of the sheep redpilled as possible, as fast as possible, and it seems the B administration is rather helping there on other fronts. People are losing their jobs, right?
Because the fact is that no elite, no matter how strong a grip they have of media, education, markets and voting can rule unless they still have a certain percentage of real supporters. If most of the people become truly ungovernable there is not much they can do, and from what you guys have been posting I got the impression that your military still probably has enough actual patriots in the lower levels even if the brass has been greatly corrupted that they would not start shooting the citizens just because told so? As well as sanctuary areas where the sheriffs, or smaller police departments, will not try to force what they see as unlawful?
So even if it has become risky for individuals to, well, be ungovernable, you still do have at least some room to move in. Use it. And try to get as many of the sheep to follow you as possible. If you could remove enough of their base you'd win no matter how bad it looks right now.
At the very least all of this is now becoming obvious. Everything, including elections, has probably been rigged and manipulated by the bad guys for decades by now, but as long as it mostly happened unnoticed not much anybody could do about it. But now it no longer is. Now it is obvious.
Go after those sheep!
So, what now? Is Sidney Powell still doing something, and is there a chance that might lead to something? What would happen if it was proven, really proven, something like half a year from now, that there was widespread fraud in the election and that Biden actually lost?
I'm more likely to assume it's more about her than about the cause. Some of them are pretty messed up mentally, but a lot more are probably more in the line of being coldly calculating and opportunistic and using whatever they think they need to stay on top. Causes are useful for that.
Most likely. Which way was her career going before this latest gimmick? Maybe not quite as well as she had hoped. So, being just gay isn't working anymore, what next... aha, not too many transgender actors yet, what if I try that? Can always go back when that stops working if I don't go full-on with surgery and hormones and stuff...
Which she doesn't seem to be doing, not yet anyway. And how would we know anyway if she claims that in some interview that she is telling the truth unless there is very strong visual and other confirmation?
So, maybe some date in the future she will suddenly realize that oh, I was wrong, I am a woman!
And if we assume that the pendulum will actually start to go full speed into the other direction culturally during her lifetime - what do you want to bet there will be the big news one day that not only has she reaffirmed that yes! She is A WOMAN! But that she was not even really gay, just a bit bi, and now she fully embraces her feminity because she has fallen in love with a real man!
They talk a lot. That's about it. And then their media covers for them, making a big number of how what is now planned is the most awesome thing ever, but never following what it actually does, by then they are onto the next awesome thing and how could anybody be mean enough to talk against this!
There aren't ever any "this is what those nice-sounding programs actually cause" kind of follow-ups.
THIS!
You need to take the time to talk to them every day as to what they have been taught in the schools if you can't homeschool (if younger after kindergarten, if they are in one, it starts early). Every day. Deprogram them daily, or you may lose them. Do all you can to get some level of reform for the local schools, but even if it seems that you have good one -
- A checking and deprogramming session. EVERY DAY.
And try to keep them away from television and such... it's pretty strong there too. There are some alternatives now when it comes to entertainment for kids, start searching for those, and again, check what you give them.
Yes.
The GF testimony of course doesn't make it impossible. Nut maybe had a "friend" who provided some helpful suggestions, like when and where even if he had started the whole thing before elections. Or they picked a nutty guy who actually wasn't even meaning to do anything, but was framed and maybe dead even before the explosion. No way to know anything, really. It does seem kind of convenient for some players, if some of the voting machines actually were there. But is there any evidence of that either? So yes, seems mostly like a dead end, either there is something or there isn't, but no way any of us on the outside can tell.
So, interesting to speculate, but probably a waste of time to get any kind of serious with this.
Probably. True, there seems to be some weird stuff going on, but I wouldn't count on it.
But then you never should. There is a lot you can do on the grassroots level, regardless of what is maybe happening behind those particular closed doors. And that is what you probably should now concentrate on anyway. You are not going to win the whole thing because of what some individuals on your side who maybe got into the government are doing or not doing, you need to get to the roots here. And the roots are to a great extent in your whole culture. I am a firm believer in the Breitbart idea that "politics is downstream of the culture".
A big part as to why you are in the doodoo now is because you have allowed others to raise your children for generations now, and too many have trusted the system to raise them right. Take the time to start deprogramming them from what the kindergartens, schools and colleges teach them first, then when you know you are at least doing that start figuring out what else you can do where you are, and to your own nearby community. Support the higher players when you can, but do NOT count on them to fix everything. They won't.
Excellent. Now try to get that news to as many of the brainwashed part of the college-age people as possible. They have grown up with the idea that the Native Americans have been victimized by the evil white people, and are closer to mother Earth and knew what is good to her better than us evil white folks so that finding out that they are now angry at BIDEN might hit them hard. They probably thought that they would be months long celebrating by those noble savages (not that they'd ever call them that, but that is pretty much the image...), and if they ever told anybody that yes, we helped that happen, we got BIDEN in and that evil orange guy out, that they would probably be offered a honorary membership in the tribe for that alone.
He may actually be VERY useful for you. How can you get the curious but doubting to look at anything "the other side" is saying?
Direct them to a fence-sitter. A fence-sitter does not seem THAT threatening to them, and they may not feel as if they are really "betraying" their side if they look.
So: "He's not "really" one of those evil conservatives, maybe I'll listen for a little bit, hey, he points out that stuff which the evil guys are doing wrong, maybe he is kind of worth listening to..."
Baby steps, guys. You are not going to get any of the fully brainwashed to your side by directing them to somebody who is clearly just on one side of the fence - and for them the wrong side - but you probably can siphon supporters from that side if you use the not-so-threatening fence-sitters for that.
So do not dismiss Pool or others of his kind out of hand.
A lot of them probably aren't interested because they prefer to think that there are no problems. Because being asleep is rather more comfortable. When you think there is a problem, and that big a problem, that can make you feel rather stressed, especially if you think you may not be able to do anything about it because you are just one of the little people. So, they ignore all and every proof no matter how convincing simply because they find that much more comfortable.
That is not to say you shouldn't keep trying. Every single person who gets red-pilled is a gain for your side, and some always will if you keep chipping on their defenses long enough.